HP to offer customized Linux for notebooks in Europe: Hewlett-Packard (HP) offers its notebook customers in Europe the option to choose a customized Linux version for its products. The Ubuntu distribution is specifically designed to support the hardware used in HP notebooks.

The company confirmed that it is working with Ubuntu, one of the smaller Linux distribution providers, to offer its customers an operating system that is tailored to work 100 percent with the hardware – including wired and wireless network, Bluetooth IrDA and IEE1394 – of selected notebooks.